Scenes from my childhood

Maybe you'll remember it, too.

And not from my childhood but some I love nevertheless.

They don't let you in the opera

She certainly didn't sound like this when she did Cosí fan tutti (except starting around the 3:34 mark). Wonder if it's a true story. With apologies for the ad. It's the better of the two versions I found.

 

 

Here she is, briefly, from Cosí:

 

And here's the overture that will give you a flavor of the whole production.

Light after dark

 Brought tears to my eyes.

A curator after my own heart

 Darning socks several hundred years old, a ship wrecked on its way to Batavia (no, not Jo's former city). AND, it's a how-to. :) Rijksmuseum curator Jeroen der Brukker. It seems to cut off before he's done but is interesting, anyway. Thanks to a sharp-eyed Raveler in the Men who knit group.